Just in case you’re wondering. Yes, of course, it’s on. Ninth annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – lots of sales all over the peninsula! – is Saturday, May 11, 2013. Next month we’ll announce the registration dates, usually about six weeks before sale day.

It’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day Eve! Tomorrow’s our day of shopping and selling all over the peninsula … A few logistical notes right now:

LATE CANCELLATIONS: If you have already printed a map, please scratch off sales #71, #72, #149, #201, #247. (While their numbers remain on the online map, you’ll see in the list on the right side of that map that they are now marked as CANCELED, in addition to a couple others that already were marked that way on the map.)

TWO HIGH POINT SALES ON SW BATAAN NOW PROPERLY LOCATED ON ONLINE MAP: Our map provider uses data from Google and Mapquest, and yet it still couldn’t place SW Bataan in High Point in the right place. Sale #159 pointed this out, and sale #147 is affected too. Bataan is between Graham and Morgan, and both sales are within 2 blocks of each other, 2800 and 3000 blocks.

OVERLAPPING MARKERS NOTE: On the printable map, we have topped the map-section pages with information about overlapping markers. We have one error in this information – on page 3, it is correct that sale #57’s marker is under #125, but that is NOT because they’re both at Hotwire – #125 is the group sale at Hotwire but #57 is another big sale a couple doors down at the West Seattle Eagles’ aerie. The listing information for #57 in the text pages (it’s on page 7, second column) is correct, and on the online map too. (Note that they’re grilling burgers and hot dogs!) … Also, please note that marker #190 is behind #232.

Sorry for the glitches – a few are unavoidable, and we try to keep it to a few – get ready for a great day tomorrow!

Now that it’s Thursday, West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2012 is just two days away. Ready to sell and/or shop? Forecast hasn’t changed. This year, the bridges are all open (last year on sale weekend, there was a Viaduct closure, but no problems this time around). All factors are coming together for a great time. Check back here a little later for a few updates to your maps.

After registration closes, it takes a couple days to go through everybody’s registration forms, check the information, crosscheck for a variety of things, but as of today, we can tell you 250 sales are signed up for May 12th! Our plan remains as usual – have the maps available (clickable online version and printable PDF version) by next Saturday, one week till West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – so watch for news on that, as well as other previews. And if you have registered, PLEASE check the e-mailbox you used to register – there are still a few people who haven’t answered our notes about their “incomplete” status, and in a couple more days we are going to have to drop them off the map if we don’t ever hear from them. Thanks for your participation and stay tuned for previews! – Tracy

That’s the unofficial early semifinal total – pending some reconciling we’ll be doing later this morning, now that registration is over. As usual, lots and lots of last-minute entries. If you have signed up, PLEASE make sure PayPal sent back a separate confirmation that you paid – and please watch your e-mailbox (the one you listed on your registration form), because if we have a clarification question, or can’t find your payment receipt, we’ll be e-mailing you ASAP. Thanks! Gonna be another great WSCGSD! – Tracy & Patrick from WSB

11:59 pm today, registration closes, so it’s last call – we are on the brink of 200 sales (a milestone we’ve passed each of the past two years, so this looks like a threepeat) and we’re thinking good thoughts for a WSCGSD that’s as beautiful as the past few Saturdays have been. 9 am-3 pm Saturday, May 12th, is the big day, if you’re just tuning in to this … here’s the form.

Once again this year, Hotwire Online Coffeehouse and C & P Coffee Company are welcoming individual sellers to be part of a group space on West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day, May 12th! If you don’t have enough room or enough stuff for your own sale, you can contact either coffeehouse – info@hotwirecoffee.com or candpcoffee@comcast.net – to get on the list to be part of the group sale. We are up to about 70 sales after the first week and a half of registration! You can sign up by going here.

Finally ready to go. Here’s the registration form. Everything is the same as last year – registration fees (we haven’t changed those since we knocked them down a notch when we took over WSCGSD in 2008), for example. Be sure to have all the info ready when you sign up – including what you want the ad for your sale to say in the map packet – even though it’s six weeks away, you probably know what your sale’s going to be about! And be sure to choose the right category for your sale in the dropdown box toward the start of the form. See you out there 9 am-3 pm Saturday, May 12th!

Time doesn’t just fly … it roars … it zooms … it is a blur. And here we are, two months away from West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2012, which will be 9 am-3 pm on Saturday, May 12 (always the second Saturday). We’re currently planning to open registration on April 2nd. More to come!

Just got a question in our main site’s e-mail asking if we’re doing it again this year. OF COURSE! May 12th, 2012, mark your calendars. More a bit later in the year .. registration will not be open for some weeks 🙂

While we continue recovering from West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2011 – are YOU recovered yet? – our friends at Shorewood on the Sound send word that their next Garage Sale Day is June 4th. They’re expecting at least 30 homes to participate, 9 am-4 pm that day, and they will have maps available at all entrances to their neighborhood, described as: Off of SW
116th and 28th, 26th and 21st. Also signs directing at 130th and Ambaum into our
south end of Shorewood. Keep an eye on shorewoodonthesound.org.

A little more than halfway through the registration period, and we’re up to 110 sales. Be sure to check that you got a confirmation both from us and from PayPal – we have maybe half a dozen people for whom the latter didn’t come through, and that means signup isn’t completed yet (we’ll be pinging those folks within the next few days but it’s still a good idea to check).

Still ahead of last year’s pace. No procrastination here! We were reminded tonight, we didn’t announce the deadline for registration (maybe that’s why people are leaping in?) … it’ll be Wednesday night, April 27th. That gives us plenty of time to make (and double/triple-check) the maps, among other advance tasks. Thanks for being part of WSCGSD! (Want to sign up? Just go here.)

Full details are on our main site, West Seattle Blog – but if you know how this works and just want to get to the registration page, here’s the link (registration is online-only again this year). Sale day is 9 am-3 pm Saturday, May 14th. Note that we have a new option on the form this year – if it’s OK to just e-mail your info-packet materials instead of postal-mailing them, please click the appropriate button. Otherwise, the fees are the same for the fourth straight year. As of this writing, registration’s just been open a few hours and we already have a dozen signups – last year we had more than 200 sales, so we’ll see what happens this year!

The season is beginning for yard/garage sales – or getting closer, anyway. Here’s the first one we’ve heard about – a call to Tibbetts United Methodist Church‘s congregation (and friends) to get busy planning their big March sale:

The Spring Rummage Sale is coming March 11th and 12th

Once again it’s RUMMAGE SALE TIME. Tibbetts United Methodist Women’s Spring Rummage Sale is March 11 and 12, so now is the time to CLEAN HOUSE and BRING THE REULTS TO THE GAME ROOM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Work will begin February 22nd & 23rd. Then continue Mondays and Tuesdays after that from 9:00am to 2:00pm, or whatever length of time you can come and help. Come and work for an hour or a day.

Coffee and tea will be available at noon so bring your lunch. Come for Fun, Focus and Fellowship. In order to work there has to be RUMMAGE SO PLEASE BRING LOTS OF IT. BUT REMEMBER IF IT DOESN’T WORK FOR YOU…IT WON’T WORK FOR US.

Just a top-of-page note to make sure you know, if this is the information you are looking for, that West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day this year will still be the second Saturday in May – but that’s MAY 14, 2011, this time around!

Click! Design That Fits is one of the businesses participating in this year’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – co-proprietor John Smersh shared this photo via Facebook, noting half-price lighting is part of their sale. Also check out their handbags, and more.

Sales 105 and 149 have now canceled because of last-minute problems – we can’t take them off the printable map but if you have already printed yours, please scratch them off – we HAVE deleted them off the Google Map, which will continue to be updated as needed up till sale day. That still leaves not only 198 sale locations BUT also hundreds more sellers through the group sites. Coming later today: School sales in the spotlight! P.S. Weather looks good for Saturday – “partly sunny” !

SWS BPW = SouthWest Seattle Business & Professional Women Business and Professional Women’s (BPW) Foundation is partnering to create successful workplaces by focusing on issues that impact women, their families and employers. Successful Workplaces are those that embrace and practice diversity, equity and work-life balance. Items for sale will help us fund our scholarship efforts. Mixed Bay Designs are a great Mothers Day gift item. Eco Chic Reusable Bags. Go green in style with these very chic designer reusable bags! Take them everywhere.

Sugar, peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies for the Climb to Fight Breast Cancer, which is a fundraiser for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. We are climbing Mt. Rainier in August and need to raise $5,000. We’re about half way now, so still need $2,500 to go. Proceeds from the cookie sale benefit breast cancer research at the Hutchinson Center!

Highland Park Improvement Club and C and P Coffee are other group sites.

Just four days till the 6th annual – and biggest ever – West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day: 200 sales (with hundreds more sellers, thanks to group sale sites, organization/school/business/block sales, etc.)! What you see above is the Google Map we made available on Saturday night; today, we also have the “printable” map, completely different format, including the map sliced into sections, and all 200 sales listed in numerical order (which is roughly #1 in the north to #200 in the south). Here’s the 12-page Word doc (6 pages if you print both sides). (added) Also, a PDF version if you’d rather print it that way. Keep checking here before sale day in case there are any updates.

We are still finalizing the printable map – but first we want to publish the link to the Google Map, particularly so that if you are a registered seller and you don’t see your sale on there, you can let us know in time to fix it. We are not distributing a lot of preprinted hard copies this year – just a few hundred for those who absolutely don’t have printers – so that means any omission is more fixable than ever. We have checked and doublechecked and done our best, but if you don’t see yourself, please e-mail garagesale@westseattleblog.com ASAP and we’ll check into it. Meantime, here’s the Google Map online version – the printable version will be a different format, with the peninsula map “cut” into several pieces, and the listings grouped together 1-200.

**Two sale participants have e-mailed to say they saw the map and wanted to know why they’re on it. If you think you’ve seen a Garage Sale Day map, please take a closer look, because it’s NOT the 2010 map. The 2008-2009 maps may be out there somewhere via Google, and certainly in the archives here, but they are clearly labeled by year. This year’s map will be posted here by Saturday night, and will be clearly announced as this year’s map.

**We are stuffing envelopes for sale packets today. They contain your “official participant” 8 1/2 x 11 signcard (in a festive light green this year, a welcome letter, and information on donating “leftovers” via Northwest Center if you are interested. If you don’t receive yours by Wednesday, call 206-293-6302 and we’ll get you one – last couple years we wound up running one or two over to folks whose packet got lost in the mail, but the overall success rate has been pretty good.

9 days till the 6th annual edition of West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – coming up Saturday, May 8, 9 am-3 pm. We are deep in the throes of mapmaking right now – we start with a Google Map before converting the data into the printed, numbered map, and what you see at left is a screengrab of the peninsula with “only” two-thirds of the sales entered so far – there’s no question, we’re past 200 sales. If you missed out on the three-week registration period (which closed last Thursday), we heard tonight that there are still a few spots at the group-sale site at Highland Park Improvement Club (e-mail hpic1919@gmail.com to inquire) – also you can check with Hotwire Coffee (WSB sponsor) if there’s any room in the Hotwire courtyard/Ginomaiparking lot multi-seller site, or at C & P Coffee. If you add all the people participating there to the total, plus the multi-family/group sales, there are at least 400 people selling! Lots of nonprofit fundraisers too – including West Seattle High School Grad Night, Chief Sealth High School PTSA, Lincoln Park P-Patch, CoolMom, Hope Lutheran mission trip, West Seattle Christian well-building trip, West Seattle Relay for Life, Alki and Lincoln Park Co-op Preschools, Amigos de los Americas, Kiwanis Club of West Seattle, Boy Scout Troop 284,Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation, International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, and then there’s the West Seattle Tool Library – accepting donations, and sending “scavenger teams” out to buy tools, instead of selling. The West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day map will be available online by Saturday night; we’ll have a limited number of printed copies for pickup at various locations, hopefully also by Saturday but it depends on how fast we finish it! Meantime, the most important thing to do is to mark your calendar and plan on a fun day. (Note to sellers: Thursday’s the last day we can take you off the map if you have to cancel – e-mail garagesale@westseattleblog.com or call 206-293-6302.)

We continue tallying them with the help of the database from the form-providing software we’re using, and we’ve definitely passed 200. In the throes of mapmaking right now. Remember that if you need to cancel – hope not! – you have to let us know by THIS THURSDAY because the map will go to the printer on Friday and will be available online by Saturday night. We are checking this site for comments but the best way to reach us with questions or cancellations is to e-mail garagesale@westseattleblog.com OR give us a call at the West Seattle Blog 24-hour business/news line, 206-293-6302. Thanks again for participating!!!!

We’ve done an almost-final (pending cancellations) count, and 200 sales are what we’re seeing on the list – thanks for all the enthusiasm! We’ll be posting nightly updates with some highlights, here as well as at WSB and on Facebook (see the link in the right sidebar) – stand by!

After we get through a few stories-in-progress over at West Seattle Blog this morning, we’ll be taking a more official count of all the sales signed up for the sixth annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – but our unofficial tracker says about 190 – definitely a new record, since we were in the low 180s last year. Thanks to everyone who’s participating! We’re still 2 weeks out (two weeks and one day, to be exact) but you’re invited to share info about your sale on the official WSCGSD Facebook page – photos, info, whatever, there’s not a ton of official info to share between now and then (we’ll be sending your postal mail packet) so that page is for participants as much as anyone. “Like” it here, if you haven’t already done that!

Kelly sent photos including that one and writes, “We have a lot of super baby clothing left at our sale and also some other great items. Come on by, 6526 49th Ave SW 98136! We’ll be here until at least 3! Great deals to be had!”

As you are shopping or closing up shop at the end of the day today, please help us fill the need.
We are desperate to fill our shelves for clothing items in the following sizes:
Boys. Sizes 4 to 8
Girls Sizes. 4, 5, 7, 8

We also need the following equipment:

Carseats that are less than 6 years old
Highchairs with straps
Bouncy seats
Strollers, especially doubles
Portable Cribs

We would be thrilled to have them on Monday at 10032. 15th Ave SW in white center.

Almost the southernmost sale on the map, but not quite. And buyers were already starting to pull up when we were there around 8:40. More to come, send us a photo at garagesale@westseattleblog.com if you can!